A/RES/52/99 Page 2 (c) The reports of the United Nations Regional Seminars on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, which were held in Burkina Faso in 19916 and Sri Lanka in 1994,7 and the Plan of Action for the Elimination of Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children,8 (d) The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993,9 which proclaims, inter alia, that gender-based violence and all forms of sexual harassment and exploitation, including those resulting from cultural prejudice, are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person and which stresses the importance of working towards the eradication of any conflicts which may arise between the rights of women and the harmful effects of certain traditional or customary practices, (e) The Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development,10 which calls upon Governments and communities to take steps urgently to stop the practice of female genital mutilation and to protect women and girls from all such similar dangerous practices, (f) The Beijing Declaration11 and the Platform for Action,12 adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women, which, inter alia, call upon Governments to enact and enforce legislation against the perpetrators of practices and acts of violence against women, such as female genital mutilation, female infanticide, prenatal sex selection and dowry-related violence, and to give vigorous support to the efforts of non-governmental and community organizations to eliminate such practices, (g) The commitment of all States to fulfil their obligations to promote universal respect for and observance of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, (h) Article 5 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,13 which provides that States parties shall take all appropriate measures to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices that are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women, as reiterated in the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action, 6 E/CN.4/Sub.2/1991/48. 7 E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/10. 8 E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/10/Add.1 and Corr.1. 9 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. 10 See Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 11 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. 12 Ibid., annex II. 13 Resolution 34/180, annex. /...